[dns-operations] Missing .us and GTLD records??

[bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com]

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:38:41AM +1000, Mark Andrews wrote:
> 
> In message <20100519000419.GA1296950 at hiwaay.net>, Chris Adams writes:
> > Once upon a time, Luis Uribarri <uribarri at alum.mit.edu> said:
> > > dig: Couldn't find server 'j.gtld.biz': Name or service not known
> > > ======================================
> > > ;; Received 472 bytes from 192.33.4.12#53(c.root-servers.net) in 21 ms
> > > 
> > > dig: Couldn't find server 'j.cctld.us': Name or service not known
> > > ======================================
> > > Sure enough,
> > > You can confirm with plain old BIND, the "A" records do not exist, (just 
> > > the glue, but not the A), should not all 'Registered Name Servers' have 
> > > the 'A' records published, or am I totally wrong here.
> > 
> > You are using an older version of dig that assumes all servers have A
> > records.  The above servers only have AAAA records, which is perfectly
> > valid.
> 
> Or the OS doesn't have IPv6 turned on.  Time to turn on IPv6.
> 
> Mark
> -- 
> Mark Andrews, ISC


	v6 transport has nothing to do w/ the contents of 
	the datagram.  He asked for "A" records (thats what the
	tool -assumes-, and when none were found, it told him
	so...  

--bill